Customary Law Amendment (No. 2) (Jersey) Law 1984.

A Law to abolish any rule of customary law providing for the annulment of contracts for the transfer of immovable property on the death of the transferor within 40 days of the passing of the contract.

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This Law abolishes any rule of customary law affirming that a contract passed before the Royal Court for the transfer of immovable property may be annulled, at the instance of the heirs or devisees, as the case may be, of the transferor, if he or she dies within 40 days of the passing of the contract.

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